"My agent has talked with Lazio and I talked with Birmingham," he said.

Mbokani had previously said he wanted to move to Craven Cottage, but a deal with Fulham is now not on the agenda.

"It is also not correct that there was contact with Fulham. Pierre Francois has assured me that he and Luciano D'Onofrio [another Standard director] were in London but just talked about another player and not with Fulham, not about me.

"They have no reason to lie to me about something and I have no reason to doubt his words."